racism

Lewis Hamilton said “archaic mindsets” have to change after retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet reportedly used a racial slur against him.

The racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory was once on the fringe, but is becoming more mainstream in American politics and on Fox News, explains Oren Segal of the ADL Center on Extremism. “It completely neglects the fact that this is a country made up of immigrants,” Segal said.

The “great replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory, is the false idea that white Americans are being systematically replaced by nonwhite people for control of the country, and it’s existed on the fringes of racist ideology for centuries. In the wake of a deadly Buffalo shooting motivated by white resentment, Dr. Jonathan Metzl explains how it moved into...

The Nash family says they’re upset with how the Kaufman County Constable’s Office handled what they call a ‘racially-motivated’ incident caught on camera.

Americans are deeply divided over how much children in K-12 schools should be taught about racism and sexuality.

The white woman was hit with a felony hate crime charge for allegedly wrongly accusing the then-14-year-old son of a noted jazz musician of taking her phone and lunging at him.

This article was updated on March 25, 2022, at 3:56 p.m. ET. As the Russia-Ukrainian conflict surpasses the one-month mark, over 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the violence. Most of them have traveled to fellow European countries, but on Wednesday, President Biden announced the U.S. would admit as many as 100,000 Ukrainians. Biden also plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees…

Between 1888 and 1934, there were 134 Black-owned banks. Today, there are only 20 Black-owned banks that qualify as Minority Depository Institutions.

Columbia University suspended the head of its psychiatry department Wednesday night after comments he made on Twitter about a model’s skin color, calling her a “freak of nature.”

A Massachusetts Montessori school apologized and fired a teacher for instructing young children to make and wear Blackface masks as a Black History Month project. The incident, which happened in a classroom with toddlers, took place last Tuesday at IC Kids in Newton. When one mother, Nadirah Pierce, picked up her children and learned what had happened, she complained and…

To help younger generations achieve success, several Black leaders from academia, business and finance recently shared their vision for the future with CNBC.

California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing says it conducted a three-year-long investigation and received hundreds of complaints from Tesla workers.

A new program plans to give Black women in Georgia up to $850 in guaranteed income per month. Similar experiments are also taking place across the country.

NBCLX went inside an African-American history class at Rhodes College, in Memphis, Tennessee, to learn how its professor and its students are tackling uncomfortable conversations about our nation’s past and present. (Note: This video contains the use of a racial slur. We have chosen not to edit it due to its context and the educational nature of the piece.)

The wave of student activism in recent months shows precisely why schools cannot afford to avoid the topics of race and discrimination, experts say.

Some graduates of color from the nation’s top military schools are left questioning the military maxim that all service members wearing the same uniform are equal.

In a new memoir, former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs talks about the challenges he faced growing up and how anti-poverty initiatives can give others a chance.

Corporate executives across the country quietly funded anti-critical race theory groups in the buildup to the recent elections.

Jon Gruden resigned as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails containing offensive language surfaced.

The Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, is cracking down on the books teachers keep in their classroom libraries, drawing protests from educators who say the guidelines amount to censorship.